The article first appeared on Jewish Ideas Daily and is reprinted with their permission. As a child, the French filmmaker Kamal Hachkar learned the Berber language from his grandparents in Tinghir ...

Heading back across the high passes into the mountains, there are many remote communities of the High Atlas where traces are still visible of Jewish Berber communities. Many Jewish Berbers called ...

According to this theory, a large portion of the ancestors of Jews in the Maghreb were pagan converts to Judaism. These converts were said to be the Berbers, an indigenous population of North ...

Though most Berbers are Muslim, some are Jewish and others are Christian. They are ethnically mixed and spread over the country, from the Rif mountain range in the north to the Atlas Mountains and ...

A few dozen Jewish merchants would descend on the Berber-speaking villages in the mountains around Agadir, typically invigorating Shabbat services during their visit. “They all end up at the ...

Further down the boulevard lined with kosher restaurants, Ouali Boussad, an Algerian Berber, prepares coffee at the Lumiere de Belleville café. “Jews, Arabs and Berbers live in Belleville like ...

A few dozen Jewish merchants would descend on the Berber-speaking villages in the mountains around Agadir, typically invigorating Shabbat services during their visit. “They all end up at the synagogue ...